Kete Foy kete@identi.ca
Twin Oaks, Louisa, VA
free (libre) hardware, software, art, photography, documents and communities
Intentional Communities
2016-10-12T20:33:10Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
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libreCMC Fund Raiser
2016-09-04T08:44:46Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
Hello, if you can, please donate to libreCMC , so there can be time for development.
BTC Address : 1Dmx1VCDrALNbxeb2kCkVEkvf5tnqKNkmy (bitcoin)
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Having proper ssl certificates would certainly help the cause. I'm greeted by a big security warning when I go to that site.
>> mray:
“Having proper ssl certificates would certainly help the cause. I'm greeted by a big security warning when I go to that site.”
Yeah, last I checked, it was because of the www part of the URL.
Cycle Case
2016-08-30T23:43:28Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
just found this great LibreOffice feature: Cycle Case, which is bound to Shift F3
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Xfce Maximize Vertically
2016-08-30T16:16:17Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
When I'm using Emacs in Xfce, I often want to maximize vertically only because I don’t need half the screen. There’s no default maximize vertically key binding, but Alt F8 is a resize command. It puts the pointer at the bottom right-hand corner and under control of the arrow keys, but if that doesn’t help, I can move the arrow to the side or corner that I want to adjust.
(offtopic, you need a new avatar, current one at status.net is gone xD)
JanKusanagi @identi.ca at 2016-08-30T16:31:14Z
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Connection Manager resolv.conf
2016-07-04T00:36:45Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
Thanks to lnxwalt and jrobb for the job hunt well wishes—I finally saw them while looking for my connman post. I switched to wireless, and connman only populated resolv.conf with localhost. It was frustrating. I finally gave up, logged out, and started X, and connman behaved itself. I don't understand.
PS—It’s either Wheel of Fortune or Jeopardy :-P
Updated SSH Key
2016-07-03T15:39:51Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
updated my ssh key, didn't know I could do it on my own, removed the old key from authorized_keys
ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C Kete # better security than ECDSA, comment seen in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and 'ssh-add -L'
ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub my_account@someone_elses_server.net
jobhunting
2016-06-29T13:01:36Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
looking for a job career all day yesterday
it's only 9am, and my eyes are already sore.
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I hope your quest is successful.
good luck!
For me it helped 2 times: just spam everybody with you summary, with no exceptions. People should be informed that you exist, they need you, they're looking for you, I'm serious. If one will reply, then you can just talk to them.
You should clearly understand, that people don't know how to describe the job and requirements it text form, so they usually write uber crap.
For example, on my current job I live inside the ffmpeg source code, IEC and SMPTE documents, this is actually the job of my dream. But in the description of vacancy the next requirements were read: MFC, Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL. I came to them and said "guys, I NEVER opened Visual Studio", but they took me anyway, and for today they gave me even more money, because the problems are solving, buisness is going on.
So, the basic idea is: you future employer can form the vacancy's description very bad. Thy are always like this. But they need you, so don't think too much description, just let them know you exist.>> AleksandrSlobodeniuk:
“For me it helped 2 times: just spam everybody with you summary, with no exceptions. People should be informed that you exist, they need you, they're looking for you, I'm serious. If one will reply, then you can just talk to them.
You should clearly understand, that people don't know how to describe the job and requirements it text form, so they usually write uber crap.
For example, on my current job I live inside the ffmpeg source code, IEC and SMPTE documents, this is actually the job of my dream. But in the description of vacancy the next requirements were read: MFC, Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL. I came to them and said "guys, I NEVER opened Visual Studio", but they took me anyway, and for today they gave me even more money, because the problems are solving, buisness is going on.”Alex, this is great! It would be better to solve problems my way.
Torbirdy GPG
2016-06-25T03:31:43Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
I use Torbirdy, and I noticed repeatedly that Enigmail would not import GPG keys after I clicked the button. I read the Torbirty Torbirdy page(s) and learned that although Enigmail is fortunately compatible, GPG functionality requires a shim or some mysterious Curl package that is only packaged in Debian. I also followed the GPG onion URL and found my new favorite source of public keys. The site sends keys in their ASCII form, but it's real easy to import them after saving as a .key file. The command is just 'gpg --import *.key'.
KWallet
2016-06-19T22:50:19Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
KWallet is a pain if you set it up wrong. I had to delete all of the hidden home files in order to start over!
Arch Touchpad Tapping
2016-06-19T14:13:28Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
Wow, this is amazing. Without an announcement, Arch now requires xf86-input-libinput and a setting enabled in Touchpad settings.
Well, for a system such as Archlinux (that is, not novice-oriented at all), not quickly announcing a change to the system that allow tapping on a touchpad, doesn't seem like a big deal to me xD
They've broken way, waaay worse than that, and its users are expected to be able to deal with this things =)
xf86-input-synaptics
2016-06-19T00:29:54Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
Apparently, xf86-input-synaptics needs a restart to get the touchpad tap functionality. I restarted X, but that wasn't good enough.
PS—No, it just quit working, so I have to figure out what this means.
“[2016-06-18 18:53] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] >>> xf86-input-synaptics driver is on maintenance mode and
[2016-06-18 18:53] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] xf86-input-libinput driver must be prefered over. ”
I installed it, so maybe it will enable tapping after restarting X.
YouTube-Viewer Channel Videos List
2016-06-16T16:43:21Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
Here’s one of youtube-viewer’s hidden tricks:
youtube-viewer --channel-videos=<channel ID>
(lists a channel’s videos)
Sliding Background Effect
2016-06-16T15:22:31Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
I like beBee's sliding background effect for hovering over buttons.
Xfce timer
2016-06-16T01:28:21Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
Xfce has a bare-bones timer that runs any command when finished. To wake myself up from meditation, I ran speaker-test with two loops.
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DNS Hijacking
2016-06-15T19:27:57Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
My DHCP setting wasn’t setting the nameservers to OpenNIC because the browser took me to an ISP search page instead of "Server not found".
/etc/resolv.conf said it was generated by Connection Manager.
I finally found this thread and figured out how to set the nameservers for each connection by using connmanctl. Then, I restarted the connman.service. Now, the OpenNIC IP addresses are in /etc/resolv.conf, and my ISP does not hijack my DNS :-)
Also, identi.ca is back. I was just about to use microca.st.
Wikipedia thanks
2016-06-09T17:53:16Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
Someone just thanked me on Wikipedia. I didn't know that was possible.
It's on the history tab once you log into your account. If you click a thank link, then it will send an email.
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Creepy WiFi
2016-06-08T20:08:23Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
For months/years, I have seen a WiFi network called Totally not the NSA.
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Nice way of trying not to have it cracked xD
JanKusanagi @identi.ca at 2016-06-08T20:53:54Z
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Printing
2016-06-05T21:21:01Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
These are my adapters. The one on the right is for USB 3.0, and the USB is for SD HC cards and a few other cards, too. I use the SD card for printing pictures of documents. The hplip drivers will only print out a test page. I save documents as PDF’s or export them as pictures depending on how many pages they have. Multiple pages need the PDF extension, and then I use Gimp to export each page as a picture. I guess I just need to replace this free printer instead, but I already had the USB 3.0 express card; and the other parts weren’t much more.
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